(n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(2) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
Inanimateness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being inanimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(2) The rats also had the opportunity to make noncontingent target biting responses on an inanimate target.
(3) The subjects' fears reflected the trauma, they feared inanimate objects, and there were hardly any paranoid ideations.
(4) In standardized tests of huddling behavior, 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-day-old rat pups spent substantial and equivalent amounts of time with an immobile rat or a heated, fur-covered tube, which suggests that the conspecific and inanimate stimuli were equally attractive to the pups.
(5) The animals learned to discriminate between pictures of faces or inanimate objects, to select the odd face from a group, to inspect a face then select the matching face from a pair of faces after a variable delay, to discriminate between novel and familiar faces, and to identify specific faces.
(6) They are even absorbed by inanimate elements, or by ordinary objects of everyday life.
(7) The chloramphenicol-treated cells, as well as cells of a transposon-generated mutant strain deficient in peripheral EPS formation, remained adhesive to a hydrophobic inanimate surface during the initial 5 h of starvation, whereas nontreated wild-type cells had progressively decreased adhesion capacity.
(8) The use of this technique results in high titers of virus on cover slips, which are inanimate objects requiring minimal manipulation.
(9) Results for inanimate objects agree within 1 percent with comparable measurements by water displacement.
(10) It is highly unlikely that the essence of the process lies in its computational logic and hence it can never be produced by inanimate machines.
(11) The ventilation system, air conditioning plant, air and inanimate sources in the operating theatre were investigated.
(12) The ecosystem encloses all living organisms as well as the inanimate environment (e.g.
(13) Germans are applauded in the language we use to describe well-functioning inanimate objects, such as Mercedes cars, or Miele dishwashers.
(14) In inanimate sources, P4 was predominant in water and sewage effluent.
(15) The usefulness of S. marcescens biotyping was shown by relating several isolates recovered from patients and their inanimate environment and by pointing out the possible existence of infections or colonizations by two unrelated biotypes.
(16) I’ve always been fascinated by how these inanimate objects harness this explosion.
(17) Visual fixation time was compared for events in which an inanimate object moved independently and events in which a human being was the agent.
(18) Texts were carried out on strains derived from the respiratory tract, strains from infection at other sites, and strains from the inanimate hospital environment which were believed not to have been responsible for infection ('environmental' strains).
(19) Infant observation indicated that there is an individual variation in development characterized by orientedness either toward the animate or toward the inanimate world.
(20) Similar to the modern sculptor of inanimate art forms, plastic surgeons have utilized new materials and devised new techniques to achieve aesthetic improvement of the face, trunk, and extremities.